Dangers During Home And Hospital Delivery
Dangers During Home And Hospital DeliverySerious complications can develop during any birth and such complications can definitely represent a larger danger to both mother and child in a wilderness cabin than when encountered in a hospital. If you decide to have your baby at home (after having gone through properly-supervised prenatal care) with an experienced nurse, midwife or physician in attendance, the odds are about one in 50 that something will happen during labor and delivery to send you to a hospital.
Hospital deliveries the mother's pelvis is too small for the baby to be born. This is usually caused by rickets (vitamin D deficiency) which resulted in a misshapen pelvic as the mother' The symptom to watch for is continuous bleeding from the vagina either before labor or after labor begins. A "mucus plug" which is passed with a small amount of blood (called a "bloody show") early in labor is normal and should not cause alarm.
